Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Shitvolumes started preparing his next show as if I were going to be in it , until one day , just before The Jungle Book was about to go up , he came into the dressing room . |
| 2 | However , if I was going to be able to maintain anything like good water quality , an essential requirement in any marine aquarium , my basic marine tank had to be a minimum size of 900 × 380 × 300mm ( 36″ × 15″ × 12″ ) with a capacity of 104 litres ( 23 gallons ) . |
| 3 | I did as I was told and flopped down on a chair , but it gradually got worse and worse , and I felt as if I was going to be sick . |
| 4 | as if I was going to be sick . |
| 5 | If I was going to be Peter Mottram , it might be better to give Mottram an address of his own . |
| 6 | I was damned if I was going to be last . |
| 7 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 8 | I mean the if she were going to be next week or something , she 'll maybe want to organize most of it herself . |
| 9 | If she was going to be in the hospital for one night she would need lots of things to read . |
| 10 | But if she was going to be killed , she had tearfully decided , it would be at her home in Mayfair . |
| 11 | Always rang if she was going to be late , always let them know exactly where she was . |
| 12 | If she was going to be devoured , well then She was going to be devoured . |
| 13 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 14 | She did n't really know if she was going to be able to take any more , and still give a worthwhile performance . |
| 15 | Feeling in no way threatened by Ven , or anybody else , she then began to realise that if she was going to be assertive about anything , then it was about Ven Gajdusek answering one or two questions . |
| 16 | You would too , if you were learning to be a DJ , or perhaps being coached in your favourite sport ! |
| 17 | As Patrick Forbes put it in Champagne , ‘ The news of his appointment was received with a certain relief by most people , for , if you were going to be shoved around , it was better to be shoved around by a wine-maker than by some beer-drinking Nazi lout . ’ |
| 18 | And if we were going to be bored , and we were usually bored , rarely being self-motivated , we could at least be bored on our own terms , lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine . |
| 19 | In the mid eighties we decided that if we were going to be one of the super unions , we had to be amalgamation-friendly . |
| 20 | But such was the resistance from management , it was feared that it would become impossible to recruit top-quality personnel from the private sector if they were going to be subject to oversight from the Comptroller . |
| 21 | It 's not as if they were going to be chucked out . |
| 22 | What was the point if they were going to be allowed to drive back to England ? ’ |
| 23 | Machine code instructions are assembled as if they were going to be placed in memory at the addresses specified by the program counter , P% . |
| 24 | Almost as if they were going to be posted . |
| 25 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 26 | ‘ It had quite an effect because only the other day a London record store asked if it was going to be released again . ’ |
| 27 | This college seemed as if it was going to be the best thing that happened to me . |
| 28 | ‘ Well ma'am , there 's some scraps of food left over and … it 's bold of me to say so … but if it was going to be wasted I know my cousins would feel the benefit . |
| 29 | ‘ It made it seem as if it was going to be superficial . |
| 30 | If it 's no I think what we agreed Glynis if it was going to be a stone it could go in the wall where it could be seen from outside . |